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Donabedian model. The Donabedian model is a conceptual model that provides a framework for examining health services and evaluating quality of health care. [ 1] According to the model, information about quality of care can be drawn from three categories: “structure,” “process,” and “outcomes." [ 2] Structure describes the context in ...
Mary Parker Follett (3 September 1868 – 18 December 1933) was an American management consultant, social worker, philosopher and pioneer in the fields of organizational theory and organizational behavior. Along with Lillian Gilbreth, she was one of two great women management experts in the early days of classical management theory.
The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity designed largely to avoid the fatality of death, to overcome it by denying in some way that it is the final destiny for man.
Uncertainty management theory ( UMT ), developed by Dale Brashers, addresses the concept of uncertainty management. Several theories have been developed in an attempt to define uncertainty, identify its effects and establish strategies for managing it. [ 1] Uncertainty management theory was the first theory to decline the idea that uncertainty ...
The biomedical model of medicine care is the medical model used in most Western healthcare settings, and is built from the perception that a state of health is defined purely in the absence of illness. [ 1]: 24, 26 The biomedical model contrasts with sociological theories of care. [ 1]: 1 [ 2] Forms of the biomedical model have existed since ...
The health belief model ( HBM) is a social psychological health behavior change model developed to explain and predict health-related behaviors, particularly in regard to the uptake of health services. [ 1][ 2] The health belief model also refers to an individual's beliefs about preventing diseases, maintaining health, and striving for well ...
Coordinated management of meaning. In the social sciences, coordinated management of meaning ( CMM) provides an understanding of how individuals create, coordinate and manage meanings in their process of communication. Generally, CMM is "how individuals establish rules for creating and interpreting the meaning and how those rules are enmeshed ...
Health policy and management. Health policy and management is the field relating to leadership, management, and administration of public health systems, health care systems, hospitals, and hospital networks. Health care administrators are considered health care professionals.